USACAPOC(A) remembers D-Day [Image 17 of 17]

NORMANDY, FRANCE

06.03.2012

David DeSoucy, retired veteran and Liberty Jump Team member, packs up his parachute after completing a jump onto La Fiere drop zone in France in honor of D-Day celebrations, June 3. Task Force 68, which is made up of paratroopers from U.S., Germany, France, Holland, and United Kingdom, re-enacted the D-Day airborne operation on the La Fiere fields near Ste. Mere Eglise, France, to commemorate the heroic acts of the WWII paratroopers who made the jump 68 years ago. After the jump, the task force marched into the town of Ste. Mere Eglise to the sounds of cheers from the locals. Task Force 68 is in Normandy, France, to commemorate the 68th anniversary of D-Day.